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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career which kept him at the forefront of a number of major stylistic developments in jazz.
Born and raised in Illinois, Davis left his studies at The Juilliard School in New York City and made his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records and recorded the 1957 album 'Round About Midnight. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish-influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold over four million copies in the U.S.
Davis made several line-up changes while recording Someday My Prince Will Come (1961), his 1961 Blackhawk concerts, and Seven Steps to Heaven (1963), another mainstream success that introduced bassist Ron Carter, pianist Herbie Hancock, and drummer Tony Williams. After adding saxophonist Wayne Shorter to his new quintet in 1964, Davis led them on a series of more abstract recordings often composed by the band members, helping pioneer the post-bop genre with albums such as E.S.P (1965) and Miles Smiles (1967), before transitioning into his electric period. During the 1970s, he experimented with rock, funk, African rhythms, emerging electronic music technology, and an ever-changing line-up of musicians, including keyboardist Joe Zawinul, drummer Al Foster, and guitarist John McLaughlin. This period, beginning with Davis' 1969 studio album In a Silent Way and concluding with the 1975 concert recording Agharta, was the most controversial in his career, alienating and challenging many in jazz. His million-selling 1970 record Bitches Brew helped spark a resurgence in the genre's commercial popularity with jazz fusion as the decade progressed.
After a five-year retirement due to poor health, Davis resumed his career in the 1980s, employing younger musicians and pop sounds on albums such as The Man with the Horn (1981) and Tutu (1986). Critics were generally unreceptive but the decade garnered the trumpeter his highest level of commercial recognition. He performed sold-out concerts worldwide while branching out into visual arts, film, and television work, before his death in 1991 from the combined effects of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. In 2006, Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which recognized him as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz". Rolling Stone described him as "the most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century," while Gerald Early called him inarguably one of the most influential and innovative musicians of that period.
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Albums
Miles Davis Quartet
Dark Magus
Night in Tunisia
Four
Blue Miles
"Miles Ahead"
Doo-Bop
Dingo
Nonet 1948 /Jam 1949
Amandla
Music From Siesta
You're Under Arrest
Directions
1958 Miles
Agharta
Bird & Miles
Big Fun
On the Corner
In a Silent Way
Miles in the Sky
Odyssey!
E.S.P.
Quiet Nights
Sketches of Spain
Porgy and Bess
Bags' Groove
Miles
Collectors' Items
Blue Moods
The Musings of Miles
Blue Haze
Blue Period
Budo / Move Single
Popular Songs
- 52nd Street
- Max Is Makin' Wax
- That's Earl, Brother
- Ol' Man Rebop
- One Bass Hit
- When I Grow To Old To Dream
- Oop Bop Sh'Bam
- Hallelujah
- Dizzy Atmosphere
- I Can't Get Started
- Dizzy Boogie
- Shaw 'Nuff
- Blue'N'Boogie
- It's About That Time / The Theme
- If were a bell
- Surrey with the fring on top
- Star eyes
- Klack-oveeseds-tene
- Bongo bop
- Barbados
- Steeple chase
- Another hair-do
- Se Near, So Far
- Dr. Jekyll
- Spring Is Here/No Blues
- Oleo / Someday My Prince Will Come / The Meaning of the Blues / Lament / New Rhumba
- Teo/Walkin'/I Thought About You
- It's Only a Papermoon
- Concierto De Aranjuez, Parts 1 & 2
- Dewey Square